Symposium

Cross-Cutting

Brain Injury

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Spinal Cord Injury

What You Get Is Not Always What You See: Addressing Complexities of Rehabilitation Research Findings (820942)

Presenter(s)

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  Janet P. Niemeier, PhD, ABPP (RP)

  Associate Professor, Director of Research
  University of Alabama
  Hoover, Alabama

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
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  Ceren Yarar-Fisher, PT, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Hoover, Alabama

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
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  Jereme D. Wilroy, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Birmingham, Alabama

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
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  Huacong Wen, PhD

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Birmingham, Alabama

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio

Non-presenting author(s)

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  Rachel Cowan, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Birmingham, Alabama

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
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  Yuying Chen, MD, PhD

  Professor
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Birmingham, Alabama

This symposium will be presented by a group of investigators who have addressed complexity and heterogeneity found in studies of rehabilitation patient populations both in outcomes and in attempts to characterize these disorders or injury groups.  Presenters' discussions will acquaint attendees with variables that investigators can easily overlook that have stymied advancement of rehabilitation science and research.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how oversimplification of motor impairment may obscure the relationship between motor impairment and basic mobility
• Understand and discuss how the complexity and heterogeneity of rehabilitation patient populations, such as TBI, could be better accounted for by stratification of data by additional variables.
• Identify what portions of the SCI-FI Basic Mobiliy scale are related to upper extremity fitness